Duncan Pflaster

Duncan Pflaster (born 1973) is an American Off-Off-Broadway playwright, composer and actor. His first play Wilder and Wilder (a transvestite adaptation of Alice in Wonderland), was produced in 1995 at Florida Playwrights' Theatre in Hollywood, FL. He now lives in New York, where many of his plays have been produced in theatre festivals, such as the Spotlight On festival and the Midtown International Theatre Festival. His plays have often been labeled as magic realism; they frequently deal with metaphysical or science fiction plots, such as parallel universes, cloning, life extension, fairy tales and mythology. His writing often touches on themes of family, community, religion, and homosexuality. Pflaster is gay. Many of his plays include nudity and frank sexual situations.

Awards

Messin' With the Kid
- Full-length Play Winner of the 4th Annual Vittum Prize for 2014.
Pocket Universe
- One of the 8 winners of the Independent Play(w)rights Ten Minute Play Contest!
Fourteen Hundred and Sixty Sketches of Your Left Hand At The Secret Theatre, 2013
- 2013 UNFringed Festival Award, Best Play
- 2013 UNFringed Festival Award, Best Actor, Emilio P. Tirado
The Taint of Equality
- 2012 Planet Connections Award, Outstanding Supporing Actor, Roberto Alexander
- 2012 Planet Connections Award, Outstanding Sound Design, Duncan Pflaster
The Wastes of Time
- 2012 Fruits of Distinction Award, Best Actress, Susan Barnes Walker
Bill's Threesome
- 2012 Fruits of Distinction Award, Best Comedy Skit
The Tragedy of Dandelion
- "Audience Favorite", MT Works NewBorn Festival 2012
- Semi-Finalist, Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference 2011
Sweeter Dreams
- 2011 Planet Connections Award, Outstanding Supporting Actor, Douglas Rossi
- 2011 Planet Connections Award, Outstanding Supporting Actress, Clara Barton Green
Mine or Yours
- 2nd Place, Fresh Fruit Festival One-Act Competition
Say Something Shocking, or the spit-take Play
- Winner Spare Change Theater's 2011 One-Minute Play Festival
The Empress of Sex
- "Audience Favorite", MT Works NewBorn Festival 2011
- Semi-Finalist, About Face Theatre's 2010 XYZ Festival of New Work
The Starship Astrov
- 2010 MITF Award, Outstanding Supporting Actress, Jennifer Gawlik
The Thyme of the Season
- 2010 Planet Connections Award, "Outstanding Playwriting for an Adaptation, Revival or Sequel"
- 2010 Planet Connections Award, "Outstanding Costumes" Mark Richard Caswell
- 2010 Planet Connections Congeniality Award - Duncan Pflaster
2009 MITF Award, "Outstanding Supporting Actor" for his performance in Kyle Baxter and John Crefeld's I Hate Love.
Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants
- 2008 MITF Award, "Outstanding Playwriting for a New Script Play OR Book of a Musical" (Tie with Monica Bauer for The Higher Education of Khalid Amir)
- 2008 MITF Award, "Outstanding Overall Production of a New Comedy Play"
- 2008 MITF Award, "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play" Carlos Rafael Fernández (Tie with Eric Percival for Bubby's Shadow)
- 2006 Spotlight On Award, "Best New Play (Writer's Award)"
Eternity: Time Without End
- 2005 Spotlight On Award, "Best New Play (Writer's Award)"
- 2005 Spotlight On Award, Best Actress Clara Barton Green
- 2005 Spotlight On Award, Best Supporting Actor Jason Specland
- 2005 Spotlight On Award, Featured Actor Joe Fanelli

Works

Full-Length

The Tragedy of Dandelion - A five-act Shakespearean Tragedy entirely in iambic pentameter, about a transgender/lesbian princess named Dandelion. - Produced by Ego Actus, 2014
Fourteen Hundred and Sixty Sketches of Your Left Hand At The Secret Theatre, 2013
The Taint of Equality - A social farce about a gay couple who don't believe that gays should get married as straight people do. - Planet Connections Theatre Festivity 2012, a monologue from it is published in Smith & Kraus' The Best Men's Stage Monologues 2013
The Empress of Sex - An erotic romantic comedy set in Ancient Greece - Planet Connections Theatre Festivity 2012
Sweeter Dreams - A multimedia play about an independent filmmaker in a love triangle with her husband and her leading actor. - 2011
The Starship Astrov - A play using Chekhovian tropes to explore life on a space ship that doesn't have weekly adventures.
Suckers - A Vampire Play - 2009
Ore, or Or - A love story about Greed and Lust and Yamashita's Gold - 2009
The Thyme of the Season ~or~ A Mid-Autumn Night's Dream - a sequel to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. - 2007
Admit Impediments - A Musical about Marriage - Gay, Straight, and Convenient - 2007
The Wastes of Time - A Gay love story dealing with the generation gap surrounding the AIDS crisis- 2006
Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants - A Big Epic Naked Shakespearean Fairy Tale Play - 2005
Eternity: Time Without End Eleven people come to a secluded beach looking for the fountain of youth; but when they find it, it's not what they expected - 2004
Sleeping in Tomorrow - A play about parallel universes, in which the main character visits the same cocktail party in different dimensions - 2002
Dik and Jayne are Not the Same - A play about cloning and lesbians - but not about Cloning Lesbians - 2001
Amazing Dædalus - A play about what happens in the time between myths - 1998
Eskimo: The Musical
Wilder and Wilder - A transvestite adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, crossed with Walk on the Wild Side
Messin' With the Kid - A dark play about a young man who is a male stripper to support his younger brother through high school.
Light and Noise and Bees and Boys - A drama about a Lesbian who suffers memory loss from a stroke and who doesn't remember that she came out of the closet.

One-Acts

Pocket Universe A gay play about a scientist who makes a virtual universe for his office crush. Published in Smith & Kraus' Best 10-Minute Plays 2013, and in Independent Play(w)rights' Ten Minute Play Anthology.
Hate Myself in the Morning A play about the army and political prisoners, played out between a young woman and the policeman she brings home for a one-night stand.
Mine Or Yours a gay guy and his fag hag attempt to discern from clues whether an attractive man at a bar is gay or straight.
Patrick and Lisa's Wedding A bridesmaid ducks out of the wedding reception of her ex-boyfriend, and ends up bumping into the young bride, who is having second thoughts about her new husband.
Pinhead A partnered Gay man brings home a young man to seduce, and is caught by his partner.
The Fugly Train Two young pretty women have a philosophical crisis on the subway.
Six Silences in Three Movements An experimental work which contrasts the things people don't say in a relationship.
Hold Thy Peace, Thou Knave Backstage at a production of Twelfth Night, a last-minute understudy for Sir Toby Belch goes a little haywire onstage, causing consternation amongst the rest of the cast.
First to Fall Asleep A dark comedy about frat hijinx that get out of hand when a freshman passes out at a frat party.
Prince Charming, presented without comment An advertising executive begins to question the saleability of Cinderella and questions the women in his life about their feelings on the topic.
New Lang Syne Two ex-college friends who had a brief fling meet by coincidence on New Year's Day. One has continued the party lifestyle, while the other is responsible and sober.
(they kiss) A playwright writes and stars in a play so he can get to kiss an actress he has a crush on.

Non-Playwright Work

He writes comic sketches for Laughing Swingset Productions, available on YouTube and Funny Or Die.

He has also written freelance theatre reviews for BroadwayWorld.com and HX magazine.

He has written music on SongFight! under the name Level Nivelo - the band name is a reference to the Esperanto used in Red Dwarf

He is also the creator of and head photographer for The Naughty Jewish Boys Calendar, a photographic pinup calendar highlighting the erotic side of Jewish men.

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